Notice of Intent to Award On A Sole-Source Basis

NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD ON A SOLE-SOURCE BASIS: Pursuant of FAR 6.302-1 “Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements,” the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Federal Investigative Services (FIS) intends to award a sole-source order to Vanguard Integrity Professionals for Vanguard Software Upgrade as part of the IBM 2096-T02 upgrade. The IBM 2096-002 Enterprise Server is being upgraded to an IBM 2096-T02 to support FIS requirements for Continuous Operations and High Availabilty. As part of the strategic hardware upgrade, the suite of Vanguard software needs to be upgraded from 945MIPS/131MSUs to 1164MIPSs/161MSUs of processing power. The Vanguard anaysis tools(Administrator, Analyzer and Advisor) are the proprietary property of Vanguard and its inner workings are known only to Vanguard. No other vendor is authorized or able to provided this upgrade of the software license. The North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for action is 423430 – Software, computer, packaged, merchant wholesalers. This is not a solicitation for quotations, but rather a notice of the Agency’s intent to make a sole-source award to Vanguard Integrity Professionals. There will be no solicitation issued or available. This notice is for information only. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS, AN INVITATION FOR BIDS, OR A REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS. FURHTERMORE, IT DOES NOT REPRESENT A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR COSTS INCURRED IN PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF DATA OR ANY OTHER COSTS INCURRED IN RESPONSE TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. You may email questions regarding this notice to the issuing office at: [email protected] or fax to 724-794-1152 Attention Michelle L. Pennington.